Thanks Bob! I've heard of the name 'Demon Seed', but not really what it was about. Now I gotta watch it. No wonder every other computer-goes-insane-and-tries-to-find-love movie has always failed. They always wuss out before getting to Demon Seed level of awesomeness.

Good on you to keep Halloween alive just a little longer. Fuck Christmas, I hate Christmas. It overshadows my own favorite holiday Thanksgiving. Halloween is a close second if only because it gives such excellent fodder for internet reviewers like you. =P

I remember seeing this movie. The Baby thing, at least, and a scene where the wife refuses to eat her eggs and ends up crouched on the table because Proteus heated up the floor so hot she couldn't walk on it.

Reptiloid:So HAL9000 and GLaDOS gets referenced, but not one mention of the far superior SHODAN? I am severely disappointed in you, Bob. :(

While SHODAN is a crazy AI she tends to think on a far grander scale than her compatriots, so I can see how they better connect to Demon Seed. Also, like Proteus IV, HAL and GLaDOS have distinct corporeal bodies, while SHODAN is more of a digital entity.

There's a good film based on Dean Koontz? Oh, now I have to see this. It does sound cool as well, but mostly I'm just shocked there's a movie that is good, and from the sounds of things quite similar to the book. Should get the book, although apparently it was re-written in 97, oddly enough. Far lighter in tone it seems, no rape, Proteus has a human servant... Odd.

Director Donald cammell has quite a good rep, especially in his collaborations with nic roeg. I've had demon seed on dvd for years after reading an article on it in a major uk film magazine. This has honestly surprised me that its considered a 'lost' movie.

Has anyone else read Wetware? Major spoilers ahoy, but there you've got the heroine (completely different to the hero's girlfriend) who LETS herself get inseminated by an AI (in the form of a big, blue, rubbery cube) in return for... I think it was a shit-ton of money. He goes on to try to take over the world, I think, but his plan is foiled by... wait for it... heavy-handed fascism. Seriously, he gets a publicity campaign and a huge following, and only by firing on protesters and hunting people down in their own houses can the Powers That Be restore order.

And does anyone else think that 'baby' looks like the Cherrub from Thief 2?

haruvister:Westworld should be remade. I generally hate remakes, but it was an awesome concept (Jurassic Park with robot cowboys), with a really foreboding atmosphere, and a soul-raping ending - the only problem was it was directed by its writer, Michael Crichton, who should have stuck to the day job.

The problem with that remake is it was Yul Brynner that made that movie great for me.

He made an excellent psychotic killer robot cowboy.

Can't think of anyone who'd replace him and make it look as good, although the film was fantastic so I do have to agree with you.

If they could find someone to take Yul's place I wouldn't mind seeing it remade either.

I saw this years ago on video, here i thought you were gonna blog something obscure. Although, granted, it was a film my dad had in his collection. Although this movie is awesome, if dated, it still works. Maybe they need a remake or a sequel to see what happens to the kid at the end.

Holy shit, what's with those ads? I came here to listen about some obscure shitty movie, not listening about fucking breast cancer! I think Escapist just went down a little more. Not because of content at least.

haruvister:Westworld should be remade. I generally hate remakes, but it was an awesome concept (Jurassic Park with robot cowboys), with a really foreboding atmosphere, and a soul-raping ending - the only problem was it was directed by its writer, Michael Crichton, who should have stuck to the day job.

The problem with that remake is it was Yul Brynner that made that movie great for me.

True, Brynner was irreplaceable.

But... I can see a worried, wide-eyed Cillian Murphy in Richard Benjamin's role. Josh Brolin could replace James Brolin. Bring in Cliff Martinez to do the music, and Vincenzo Natali to direct and BOOM! Box office gold.